brandon

I think my track for the first MuWee birthday celebration was the one I had the most fun making. It was a silly piece that I made almost entirely with my mouth and post-processing. 😅 soundcloud.com/brandon-writ...

Wild that it has been 10 years! Congrats to the team on the milestone!

You want to be anti ai? Then support people working without it, share their efforts and help them get seen and let them know you enjoy their efforts.

The patch notes of champions. "The Sun" Congrats on 10 years!

I need a little diversion so I'm joining in the second fishing game jam (a little late). I'm hopig to prototype a little idea I've been bouncing around in the background recently. Some vibes, some magic??, and LOTS of fishing.

The majority of my itch games are bitsy projects of various sizes. It is wonderful seeing bitsy turn 10 and bittersweet seeing the jams come to an end. Thanks for the lovely tool and ten years of jams!

Statement from VGHF director Frank Cifaldi on the discontinuation of physical PlayStation media, and the closure of the PS3 and PSP digital storefronts.

So glad to have my "long minutes" back!

I was raised on these streets

the secret to lighting interiors well in games is that it just sucks but you definitely have to do it

"Game dev is one of those jobs you only do when you really want to. It's not going to make your parents proud, you're unlikely to get rich in an industry that lays off people for making superhits, and its a demanding & confrontative job. Why would you let a machine do the thing you're here to do?"

i am aware of the irony here brandonmakesthings.itch.io/my-art-is-no...

I'm glad folks are still finding the Bitsy Cheatsheet useful after all of this time. It is regularly one of my top viewed pages on Itch. brandonmakesthings.itch.io/bitsy-cheats...

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Studying for my AP captcha exams

Introducing: OST Composing Jam: Overtime: You have a month to make an hour of soundtrack. This jam is an built for those of you who love going all in, and we're encouraging collaboration to bring together cohesive, complete soundtracks. 📆 Starts May. 🎼 Join below. itch.io/jam/ost-comp...

Just spent more time than I'd like to admit debugging why my Godot game would not close properly. Turns out there's currently a bug with accessing lambdas in static methods or autoloads. The one time I break my "no lambdas" rule... 🙃

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I've written a book! Next Level: Making Games That Make Themselves is the story of procedural generation - the tech behind games like Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress. It's about how it works, the games that use it, and the art and magic behind it. Out May 7th, in bookshops: linktr.ee/next_level 🎲🔮

make video game

I don't want to "jump on a quick call", ever.

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

These are some excellent updates!

He stayed out there for all of 3 minutes.

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lol why do they drop loot like its a video game

This seems like a good direction for the platform. GenAI cover art next pls?

A little piano thing for this week's @musicweeklies.bsky.social theme.

Here are some bleeps and bloops I wrote for this week's @musicweeklies.bsky.social theme.

Give your senior engineer and devops team a heart attack with this one weird trick

I feel this in my soul.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Hey it's bandcamp friday so I'm going to plug my music a bit. Critics have called my work "some of the music of all time." brandonthread.bandcamp.com

I'm glad folks are still finding the Bitsy Cheatsheet useful after all of this time. It is regularly one of my top viewed pages on Itch. brandonmakesthings.itch.io/bitsy-cheats...

When ever one of those AI bros tires to tell you that artist are gatekeeping art remember that pros, armatures, hobbyist all stopped what they where doing to provide guidance to a newbie artist over the shared experience that "this one angle is hard to draw"